MRS in the News

Sep 21, 2022 | The Washington Post

Nick Holonyak Jr., whose development of LED, proved a breakthrough that now has countless practical applications, including lightbulbs, mobile phones, TV sets and microscopic surgical equipment that can save lives, died Sept. 18 in Urbana, Ill. He was 93.

Jul 29, 2022 | Rice University

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist with more than 25 years in academia, industry, national labs and government service, has been named Rice University's vice president for research. 

Jun 22, 2022 | University of Hawaiʻi

Research excellence at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was on display. Experts from the College of Engineering, Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) and Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) delivered presentations.

Jun 7, 2022 | Pennsylvania State University

Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, has been awarded the Material Research Society's (MRS) 2022 Impact Award for his contributions toward building a global materials science and engineering community. 

May 20, 2022 | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Prineha Narang has been awarded the Materials Research Society’s (MRS) Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award for her outstanding, interdisciplinary scientific work in materials research.

May 11, 2022 | Cedar Group

Prof. Ceder & his students present their work on design of lithium-ion conductors for solid-state batteries, new Ca-ion conductors for solid-state batteries, & computational & machine learning approaches for analyzing disordered rocksalt cathode materials

Apr 29, 2022 | Imperial College London

Molly Stevens has been awarded the 2022 Mid-Career Researcher Award from the Materials Research Society.

Apr 13, 2022 | Purdue Today

Alexandra Boltasseva, MRS Fellow and professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mar 23, 2022 | White House

Cherese Winstead, Member of the Materials Research Society, was named a Member of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.

Mar 12, 2022 | American Kahani

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Materials Research Society’s Journal of Materials Research.

Mar 11, 2022 | We Are Intel

Carolyn Duran, 2022 MRS President, is profiled in this Intel blog.

Mar 9, 2022 | TechXpolore

Mihri Ozkan, University of California, Riverside, a 2021 MRS Fall Meeting symposium organizer, discusses research on using carbon capture to fight climate change that was shared at the 2021 MRS Fall Meeting. 

Feb 22, 2022 | vegconomist

A new study published in MRS Communications has demonstrated that AMSilk engineered vegan spider silk coatings have the potential to prevent inflammation and reduce post-operative complications of implants.

Feb 22, 2022 | Med-Tech News

AMSilk has noted a study published in MRS Communications which demonstrates that AMSilk engineered spider silk coatings have the potential to prevent inflammation and to reduce post-operative complications of implants. 

Feb 22, 2022 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jim De Yoreo, who served as MRS President in 2011, was recognized for his “advances in materials synthesis from nucleation to large-scale crystal growth.”

Feb 22, 2022 | Yahoo Finance

A study published in MRS Communications in June 2021 demonstrates that AMSilk engineered spider silk coatings have the potential to prevent inflammation and to reduce post-operative complications of implants.

Feb 22, 2022 | AZoRobotics

Thomas P. Russell, an MRS Fellow, discusses the first self-driven, aqueous robot that works nonstop without electricity, inspired by the natural behavior of water-walking insects.

Feb 21, 2022 | AZO Materials

Recently published in the journal MRS Energy & Sustainability, researchers discussed the opportunities and problems related to the integration of the international circular (bio)economy concept with the development of sustainable polymer materials. 

Feb 16, 2022 | India Education Diary

POSTECH Ph.D. candidate Jeonghoon Park in the Department of Mechanical Engineering recently won a Best Poster Award at the 2021 MRS Fall Meeting. 

Feb 11, 2022 | UCLA Samueli School of Engineering

Aaswath Raman has been elected as a 2022 senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. Raman is the 2018 Recipient of the MRS Nelson "Buck" Robinson Award.